A note from Pastor Tim

       Wow!  Where to even start?  This is the blog that was not supposed to happen.  We should be driving home from JFK right now.  However, we are back at the base waiting to hear how and when we will get home.  On the way to the airport we got stuck in traffic and the usual 45-60 minute drive with traffic turned into almost 3 hours.  As a result, they had already closed our flight and we could not get on.  After waiting on standby for a couple hours we found out that we could not get on the last flight out of Haiti for today.  So we went back and got our baggage…tried to get a new flight scheduled…and eventually headed back to the base.  Our travel agent is currently working to help resolve this problem for us.   We have a few emotional students…and leaders…but we are all OK and safe at the base.  In spite of not having things go our way today we are grateful for many things:

-Someone in our church works for the travel agent and is helping us resolve the issue
-We have a place to come back to where we are safe and can eat and sleep
-The other team that came in today is smaller so we all still fit at the base
-One of the members of the new team came in this afternoon so Redgi was at the airport with the bus to bring us back.
-Some of our friends here bought us pizza to eat when we got back.

-Crystal happens to take the same medicine as Emily and had plenty of extra toshare.

     This is an opportunity for us to trust God with situations that are beyond our control.  Life does not always go our way and we then have a chance to decide how we will react.  Good life lessons for all of us!

     By the way, we let the students do the blogging this week, but I wanted to say that they have done an amazing job this week.  You can all be proud of them!  I will get them home as soon as possible!!!

Tim